Mercurial > emacs
changeset 64680:32b32ccdedc0
Update. Include emacs-devel message fragment.
| author | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> |
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| date | Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:05:51 +0000 |
| parents | eedfd1635c9e |
| children | 12ea7ab25f7c |
| files | admin/notes/years |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/admin/notes/years Fri Jul 29 15:11:50 2005 +0000 +++ b/admin/notes/years Fri Jul 29 18:05:51 2005 +0000 @@ -1,11 +1,23 @@ +How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs - THIS DOCUMENT IS UNDER REVIEW. +"Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in Emacs + since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years. We don't + need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years. + It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!). - DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -- THEY ARE NOT CORRECT. + For those files that have been added since then, we should add + the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years." + + --RMS, 2005-07-13 -How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + +Following is the policy that we tried to write down one time (mid 2005). +Although it is incorrect, we keep it around to remind us how complicated +things used to be (and may become in the future). Principle: Individual files need to have the year of the release